TOBACCO POI CHK.S. 



turns. The spams are all sewed &quot;over and over&quot; on the &quot; wrong&quot; side 

 with sinew thread. 



These tobacco pouches are usually of a similar pattern, often slightly 

 narrowed at the neck, and generally fringed round the mouth with a 

 narrow strip of wolverine fur as above. They are often ornamented 

 with tags of wolverine fur on the seams (as in No. 89804 [1341, Fig. 

 8fr]), and borders of different colored skin. No. 80805 [l. ioOJ is very 

 elaborately ornamented. It is made, of brown deerskin, trimmed with 

 white deerskin clipped close and bordered with narrow braids of blue 

 and red worsted, and little tags of the latter. According to Dr. Simp 

 son, 1 these bags are called &quot;del-la-niai -yn.&quot; We neglected to obtain 

 the proper names for them, as we always made use of the lingua franca 

 &quot;tiba piiksak,&quot;bag for tiba (tobacco). No. 80903 [889] contains a spec 

 imen of tobacco as prepared for smoking by the Eskimo. This consists 



fin. 8. Tobacco pouclien. 



of common black Cavendish or &quot;Navy&quot; tobacco, cut up very tine, and 

 mixed with finely chopped wood in the proportion of about two parts of 

 tobacco to one, of wood. We were informed that willow twigs were used 

 for this purpose. Perhaps this may have some slight aromatic flavor, 

 as well as serving to make the tobacco go further, though I did not 

 recognize any such flavor in some tobacco from an Eskimo s pouch that 

 I once smoked and found exceedingly bad. The smell of an Eskimo s 



Op. cit., p. 243. 



